CONWAY, ARK (March 11, 2009) – Noted author Max Apple will present a public talk and reading at Hendrix College on Monday. The event, to take place in Mills A in the Mills Center on the college’s campus, is free and open to the public.  

Apple’s presentation is sponsored by the college’s Crain-Maling Center for Jewish Culture, with the support of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation.

Apple teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of The Oranging of America, Roommates, and, most recently The Jew of Home Depot, among other works.  Roommates was made into a film in 1995 starring Peter Falk and Julianne Moore.  The New York Times has praised Apple’s The Jew of Home Depot for his “knack for creating memorable little fictional worlds.”

A reception and book-signing in Mills Library will follow his presentation.  Also on Monday, Hendrix students will have the opportunity to have lunch with Apple in the Private Dining Room of the Hendrix cafeteria.

For more information on Max Apple’s visit please contact Marianne Tettlebaum, Director of the Crain-Maling Center for Jewish Culture, at tettlebaum@hendrix.edu.  For more information on the Crain-Maling Center for Jewish Culture, please see www.hendrix.edu/jewishculturalcenter.

Hendrix College, founded in 1876, is a selective, residential, undergraduate liberal arts college emphasizing experiential learning in a demanding yet supportive environment. The college is among 165 colleges featured in the 2009 edition of the Princeton Review America’s Best Value Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.